This Week in Impact

Milken’s Dan Carol and Rachel Halfaker join host Brian Walsh to share how they are connecting historically disadvantaged communities with the huge sums of public and private financing looking for actionable green infrastructure projects. The portal, called the Community Infrastructure Center, launched this week at Milken’s Public Finance Forum.

Host Monique Aiken and ImpactAlpha’s Roodgally Senatus chat with Su Sanni and Chris Coles of Brooklyn-based Dollaride, which is working with with climate and tech startups to electrify the city’s informal “dollar vans” and boost the livelihoods of drivers in New York’s transit deserts.

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Kristin Hull of Nia Impact Capital, a long-time Tesla investor who says Elon Musk’s  Twitter escapades threaten the electric vehicle maker’s climate mission.  Hull spoke to Walsh spoke about Nia’s public markets impact strategy,  why they’ve shifted Tesla from their client’s funds into a separate  activist fund, and when they might start to consider divesting  altogether.

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and David talks with Aisha Weeks of the Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth about narrowing the racial wealth gap by expanding access to home ownership.

Host Brian Walsh catches up with Common Trust’s Zoe Schlag, who is taking aim at U.S. wealth gaps by helping employees become owners – while enabling business owners to retire with purpose. Plus, the headlines.

Amy Cortese catches up with FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to talk methane, governance and catalytic capital. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Check out this week's Call: impactalpha.com/calls, and all of our coverage at impactalpha.com

Host Brian Walsh is joined by Steven Rothstein, managing director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, to chat about how climate investors are reacting to this week’s midterm election in the U.S. as well as the COP27 global climate summit. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/454045290687

Jon Hale, director of sustainability research at Morningstar, joins Monique Aiken to talk about what is at stake for impact investors in next week’s US election. impactalpha.com/subscribe

Brian Walsh has the headlines and Amy Cortese chats with Oxford’s Bob Eccles about why the distinction between ESG and impact in investing matters more than ever. https://impactalpha.com/cant-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard-sorting-out-esg-impact-and-sustainability/

Host Monique Aiken is live and in person with Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Common Future, and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank at SOCAP22 in San Francisco. Plus, the headlines.